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I have been reading the Song of Ice and Fire Series for over 3 years, each book over and over again. I am just wondering if any of you know when the when book 5, A Dance of Dragons comes out. or otherwise comment on George R R Martins series.:sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::s

Didn't like it. I made it halfway through the first book twice before I stopped trying.

I found Martin's writing style terribly repetitive.

If you want something that genuinely does ignore literary conventions and does something original, I recommend Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast.

I don't know what it is about his writing that turns me away from it, but I find after reading a chapter at a time all I can think is "I've got another 500 pages of this x_x" So I can only read about one chapter a month.

I thought Martin's novels were quite good.Not the best, but still decent. I want to find out what happens next!

In about 30 seconds I can discover that it's unfinished, been expected for a while, he puts progress updates on his blog here (http://grrm.livejournal.com/) and that on wiki there are links to two samples.

The Internet's a wonderful thing.

lol thank you


I hated the books the first time i read them, but my friend schindles kept telling me to keep reading because they get better and less confusing, which i did, and they are awesome now. my problem was that in the first book their are nine different plots going on at the same time.

I don't read no books...

I have been reading the Song of Ice and Fire Series for over 3 years, each book over and over again. I am just wondering if any of you know when the when book 5, A Dance of Dragons comes out. or otherwise comment on George R R Martins series.:sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::s

his game of thrones books rock but the recent one with the new characters was not as cool. I cant wait for more to come out in that series.

Didn't like it. I made it halfway through the first book twice before I stopped trying.

I found Martin's writing style terribly repetitive.

If you want something that genuinely does ignore literary conventions and does something original, I recommend Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast.

I read Gormenghast & it was the most verbose, pompous & tedious book I'd read since Dickens in high school. I hated it. I was really disappointed too, because it was highly recommended by a good friend.

I have been reading the Song of Ice and Fire Series for over 3 years, each book over and over again. I am just wondering if any of you know when the when book 5, A Dance of Dragons comes out. or otherwise comment on George R R Martins series.:sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::sniper::s

Apparently he's got a bad case of writer's block & it keeps getting delayed. I've really enjoyed the series, because he's not afraid to kill off his main characters. They're not really the genre I tend to read, so I was surprised I liked them so much.

You don't think you overdid it with the gun smilies?

how odd, i rather consider tuff voyaging the great american novel of the 80s, as hienline's strainger in a strange land was of the 60s. (the 70s had too many to pick just one)

i've yet to read any of his fire and ice. cheap bastard that i am, i'm waiting for second hand ones to show up in the buy back paperback stores.

some of his wild card series was ok too.

i AM looking forward to reading his fire and ice ones though.
there was a wedding at a furrycon somewhere that was appearently in some way inspiered by one of them.

i like alternative tec gizmoes (and infrastructure) a LOT more then sharp pointy objects or things that go bang, i do like funkey, sans buildingcode architecture though.

i also like "strainge 'new' (to me/us?) worlds", with really trippy flora and fauna.

(something i wish there was a lot more of here too, those last two parageraphes)

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